Food-chopper.



No. 727,130- PATENTED MAY 5, 1903.

M. GR'ISWOLD, JR.

FOOD CHOPPER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26, 1902.

no MODEL.

MATTHEW GRISWOLD, J R.,

PATENT Fatented May 5, 1903.

FFICE.

OF ERIE, PENN SYDVANIA.

FOOD-CHOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N 0. 727,130,1datedMay5, 1903. Application filed June 26, I902. $erial No. 113,321. (No model.)

To all whom, it fltcty concern: 1

Be it known that I, MATTHEW GnlswoLn,

Jr., a citizen of the United" States, residing at Erie,in the county of Erie and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Food-Choppers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being'had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in food-choppers, which consist substantially of a frame supporting and. embodying a tubular shell having a hopper on the rear end and cutting-surfaces on its front end, in which shell a forcing-screw operates to force the material placed in the hopper through the tubular shell and against the cutting-surfaces in the front or cutter end thereof and operates to cut or chop the material as it passes said cutting-surfaces.

As food-choppers are now constructed the rear or crank end of the shell is providedwith a cylindrical opening the full size of the forcing-screw, which operates as a bearing for a collar or journal on the rear or crank end of the forcing-screw and also allows of the insertion or withdrawal of the forcingscrew therethrough. As food-choppers are ordinarily constructed the juices of the ma-- terial being chopped constantly leak through this rear or crank end opening during the operation of the chopper and drip down upon the chopper-frame. This difficulty is overcome in one chopper by extending a trough or spout through the chopper-frame under the rear or crank end of the shell, so as to catch this drip therefrom. I have, however, overcome this difficulty by cutting a groove in the bearing in which the collaror journal on the crank end of the forcing-screw operates or in both the bearing and collar and making an opening in the lower part of the groove which leads down through the shell into a trough or spout in the frame under said bearing, which trough or groove catches the juices, which pass therefrom through the opening in the rear end thereof.

'"carries it into a suitable receptacle.

bottom of the groove into the trough or spout, which conveys them away, and thus I prevent any portion of the juices escaping from the crank end of the shell. V

This invention is hereinafter fully set forth and described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view in elevation, with parts broken away, of a food-chopper frame embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a like view of a food-chopper embodying my invention with the forcing-screw therein. Fig. 3 is a like view of a food-chopper embodying a modified form of my invention.

In the drawings illustrating myinvention, A is the upright portion of a, food-chopper frame and is provided-at its --lower end with clamping-jaws B B and'a clamping-screw C. On the top of the upright part A there is a cylindrical shell D, having a hopper D on the In the rear end of the shell D there is an opening E large enough to permit the insertion and removal of a forcing- .screw F therethrough. This opening E operatesas the bearing for the collar f on the crank end of theforcin'g-screw F. In this bearing E, I make an annular groove 6, and

shell D, which operates to drain any fluids passing into the groove e down therethrough.

In the part A of the frame directly under the opening d in the shell I make a trough or spout G, which extends forward toward the cutter end of the shell D, which spout reoeives the drainage from the opening cl and (Not shown.)

In Fig. 3 I show a modified form of construction of my invention, in which the opening or bearing E in the shell, the groove am the bearing, the opening at therefrom, and the trough or spout G are the same as hereinbefore described; but in'this case I make an annular groove f in the collar f of the forcingscrew F, which when the forcingscrew F is in place in the shell D coincides with the groove e in the opening or bearing E therein.

Having thus described my invention, so as to enable others to construct and use the same,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by toward the cutter end of the shell, substan- Letters Patent of the United States, istially as and for the purpose set forth. :0

The combination inafood-chopper of ashell In testimony whereof I aflix my signature having an annular groove in the crank-end in presence of two witnesses. 5 opening thereof and a hole through said shell MATTHEW GRISWOLD, JR.

from the bottom of said groove, and a trough Witnesses: or spout in the frame under said shell com- H. M. STURGEON,

munioating with said opening and extending I F. J. BASSETT. 

